Today’s Wayno/Piraro Bizarro, a cartoon that would be totally incomprehensible without several pieces of pop-cultural knowledge:
(#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 3 in this strip — see this Page.)
Archive for the ‘Slogans’ Category
Clash of the titular Peppers
September 1, 2021
On the fisting patrol
April 11, 2018Things you can do with a fist.
Yesterday, in my posting “Two cartoons from friends”, significant uncertainty about whether the verb to fist in the second cartoon was intended merely as a contact-action verb (roughly, ‘to punch’) or as a reference to a sexual practice. Right after that, friends posted photos of this t-shirt, on sale (in a range of sizes, from infants’ on up) in Walmart:
(#1) The fisting love t-shirt, available from many sources on amazon.com and elsewhere
Apparently intended as a joke, but possibly understood by some as an innocent reference to fist-bumping.
Fifty shades and the Justice League
March 21, 2018(Gay porn in several media, some featuring BDSM and other fetishes. Use your judgment.)
Annals of parodies and puns on titles, with a gay slant: Fifty Shades of Grey (the books and the movie), Justice League (the movie).
Three more pumpkin-spicy bits
October 26, 2017On the 23rd, “The pumpkin spice cartoon meme”, with a variety of developments of pumpkin spice ‘spice for pumpkin (pie)’ to concrete uses for the flavor of such spice and the scent of such spice and then to figurative uses ‘special, extraordinary’ and from there ‘top-grade’. Now, some further developments:
The possibility that Pumpkin Spice might be a Spice Girl (Michael Palmer asks on Facebook, “Which of the Spice Girls is Pumpkin Spice?”).
More generally, the rule of thumb: if spice, then pumpkin spice, as in this playful e-card:
(#1) The verb spice up > pumpkin spice up
And, as also illustrated in #1, the metonymical extension of pumpkin spice to ‘autumnal’ (thanks to the association of the spice with the fall).
I’m silently labeling you an asshole
October 5, 2017Accidentally encountered on the net yesterday: this t-shirt triumph of supercilious peeving:
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It’s also available on signs, mugs, plaques, and goodness knows what else. Dare I hope for underwear?
Fags Before Flags, and other in-your-face t-shirts
May 14, 2017(Plain talk about men’s bodies and sexual practices, so use your judgment.)
Thanks to Greg Parkinson for a link to this John Crisvitello t-shirt:
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The slogan is a send-up of the odious BROS BEFORE HOS, preserving only the rhyming, the street language, and a message about balancing allegiances. My reading of the slogan is that it calls for gay men to generally value bonds to other gay men — fags stand with fags — over the sorts of allegiances expressed in flags: nationality, regional identity, religion, race and ethnicity, political affiliation, etc.
Play with Obi Wan Kenobi
March 23, 2016Today on Pinterest, a couple of plays on the name Obi Wan Kenobi (of Star Wars fame): a Latino variant and a food variant. May the silliness be with you!
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Juan with his lightsaber
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Obi Wan Cannoli
Viking Kids
January 18, 2016Posted on Facebook yesterday, this entertaining composition:
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The caption combines two kinds of word play on the original It takes a village to raise a child: a word exchange, of village and child; and a pun on raise / raze. And it alludes to the reputation of the Vikings as ravaging and pillaging as they move across the countryside.
Search for the magic slogan
August 2, 2015Today’s Dilbert, with a brainstorming session at the office:
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All they need is a magic slogan, in three words, clearly explaining everything the new product does. Labels — names — aren’t good at doing this task, and slogans (which are primarily designed for conveying emotions) are even worse than labels.
And yes, Alice, “Keep Doing It” is in some sense already taken. Several times, probably.
